Timothy and Jonah, wealthy entrepreneurs with a spoiled son, hide sins from their past—one involving a death on a cruise, the other a crime in Bali. Nathan and Samantha, the hot ex-nanny turned trophy wife, grapple with infertility and a shocking paternity secret. Bartosz and Angelika (he’s a chef, she’s a former sex worker) carry debts to the other couples they don’t even realize they owe. Over fourteen days, the couples bond—but their pasts are too deeply intertwined to stay hidden. The sly concierge, Putu, knows more than he lets on.

Life’s not going well for forty-year-old Abby. When her beautiful and charismatic best friend dies suddenly, she’s left reeling. Hetty’s always been such a dominant force in her life; now Abby must figure out who she is – and who she wants to be – without Hetty by her side. Abby has always been the odd one out in Hetty’s wealthy, privileged friendship group. Despite their differences, Abby has managed to carve out a place for herself. But Hetty isn’t an easy friend to have. She blows hot and cold, alternating between fierce loyalty and unwarranted cruelty.

Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby....

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

"Your daughter is dead." When Kat Cavanaugh hears the words every mother dreads, her perfect world shatters. She takes in the beautiful long blonde hair, torn yellow dress, and chipped blue nail-varnish. It can’t be real. And then the police add the word "suicide". But Kat refuses to believe them. Even when they show her the familiar looping handwriting and smudged ink on the note her little girl left behind. She knows her bubbly, vivacious daughter would never take her own life.

Chicago’s winters were infamous for being cold but not many people talked about just how cold It got in the hood. Lavish Sanchez knew all to well and learned at a very young age that the city of Chicago didn’t love anyone After her King pen mother and father were killed at her 6th birthday party , she was sent to Texas to live with her grandparents. Lavish grew up unhappy and promiscuous trying to fill the void of losing her parents and being uprooted from where she knew was home. Hungry for the luxurious life she lived as a child, Lavish now 23, sets off to Chicago to strip her way to ...

Angela’s life has been flipped around and turned upside down. She never expected to be pitted against her sister competing against her own flesh and blood for a man’s affection. Her relationship with her brother in law had grown increasingly inappropriate. Angela and Eric had crossed the line and created a complicated energy that left her off balance and unable to control her feelings for him. Eric was a Cincinnati bad boy who learned the hard way that neither his money nor his intellect made him exempt from the cold realities of the world that he lived in. Love could get you killed and...

Life in the ghetto produces some of the most provocative character types known to man. A young kid afflicted from birth, misguided, beaten, and drugged through life on his face. Nobody ever loved him. Not in this life did he expect to get a break. Born into the wrong family and situated around negative circumstances. He had two options: Survive or perish

Bad boys do it better, and nothing else can compare to a thug's love; sweet, ruthlessly unforgiving, and as psychotically insane as it appears, the love feels undeniably real.Ryleigh is a good girl who unwittingly fell in love with a married man. By the time she realized her dilemma it was too late she had been swept up into his magnetism and thug appeal. Ryleigh had invested so much time and love into Aiden that she felt just as much entitlement to him as his wife did. She wasn't a delusional side chick who overstepped her boundaries. She was more than that in all intents and purposes she ...

Bianca is an around the way girl with beauty and brains who can definitely hold her own in the mean streets of New York, but she doesn't have to. Beside her and willing to go just as hard and catch her back is her sister Kimmisy and their cousin Heather. Presidential is everything that women come to despise about men, yet he is so damn sexy and on top of his game. A sudden interest in Bianca sparks a crazed obsession where he's willing to do anything to have her. Even invite her into a world of mystery, intrigue, adventure, and excitement filled with unexpected twists and turns. What girl ...

A Harlem Kingpin comes home from prison. He crosses paths with a struggling Single Mother. Hood Love is in the air! For the last 3 years, Marquez Robinson, the former head of the infamous 116th Street Crew has been sitting on Riker's Island. He's doing a 25 to-life sentence for murder. Once he got locked up, his younger brother Drako shut down the illegal street operation and went into the nightclub industry. He's owns the hottest club in Harlem, Shakerz. And he's proved that he can get things popping without his older brother looking out for him. Both of their lives are about to get ...

There is a saying that Nicole should have taken heed to... If it's too good to be true, then it probably is! But Derrick was more than too good. He was dashing. Wealthy. Charismatic. And he was fire between the sheets! She didn't need anyone to point out his red flags. He had posted them everywhere. And when they break up and move on, married to other people and happy, a chance encounter ten years later brings them back together. Only this time.... One of them won't live to tell their tale!

Beginning to love me is a heartfelt drama about four women struggling to put their lives back together. Irish is in love with a married man who has no intention on leaving his wife or any interest in giving up his position in Irish's bed. Camry is in trouble and can't get away from it. her version of love has blackened her eye and imprisoned her now all she does is sit in the house, pop Xanax, and pray for better days. Goldie can't catch a break no one will let her live down her past no matter how much time has gone by to some people she was, is, and always will be a murderer. Tabitha is ...

College life is fast, fun, tiring, stressful, but most of all, memorable. It is a place where people from all walks of life gather in hopes of obtaining a higher education and where unexpected bonds are forged. Those bonds come with life lessons that either make or break you. Whether you fold— that lies strictly in your hands unless life’s hardships threaten to get in the way. Iyana, a nineteen-year-old mother of two, is determined to make something of herself. The road to obtaining her education hasn’t been easy, but she will stop at nothing to accomplish her goals. Not even the ...

Sienna and Frog belong to an organization run by Kema, a ruthless and calculating mastermind who will stop at nothing in order to maintain her stronghold on the city's streets. Frog is her number one enforcer and Sienna is her protege. Together, Frog and Sienna hold Kema down and wreak havoc as they discover an immeasurable degree of love in each other.

No longer a scared little girl, Nia has become a survivor and matured into a beautiful person despite the traumatic abuse she endured at the hands of her aunt. Nia has been given an opportunity to live a rockstar lifestyle through her superstar boyfriend, the sensational drill rapper Jelani. Nia has everything that she ever wanted at her fingertips, including love, security, and a man who has her back against all odds. The past resurfaces and threatens to tear apart her happily ever after piece by piece.

Life was never meant to be easy. She understood all too well the painful contradictions of being ordinary people. Mothers loved and protected their children. They were supposed to be there assisting the transformation from girlhood to womanhood. Mothers taught their daughters everything they knew about life. That wasn't Nia's reality; she had been orphaned at birth and left in her aunt's custody. Nia was mistreated for no reason at all. She had inherited her aunt's hatred for her mother. Who does that? What kind of person stares into the eyes of a small newborn baby and makes a promise to ...

Presidential 3 is an explosive, dynamic, breath taking finale that is filled with twist and tuns, and has an unforgettable romantic element that is weaved masterfully into an action packed thriller. Kimmisy and Pickle are in love and plan to spend their lives together, but pressure arises and they are forced to chose between their happily ever after or saving their own individual lives. Heather is back home with her children suffering from the loss of her lover, the shame of letting her family down, and the disappointment that came from having everything that you valued in the palm of your ...

After learning that his wife, Olivia, has been unfaithful, Aiden is overly enraged and ravaged with jealousy; his pride is injured, and he has a point to prove. No man alive would ever take what he considered his and get away with it. Aiden was in pursuit, searching for Ethan like he was a wanted fugitive. He catches up to him, and a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. Olivia has reached the point in her life where she is completely outdone and over all the drama that Aiden has brought into her life. She is sick of all his lying. She doesn’t want to be with him any longer. Ethan has her ...

Ain’t nothing but a heartbreak is what twenty-five-year-old Ariel Sweeny keeps telling herself when it comes to her boyfriend of the last five years, “Trouble.” He most definitely lives up to his name, causing trouble everywhere he goes. He’s trouble in the streets, and most importantly, he has trouble keeping it in his pants. Even still, Ariel loves Trouble down to her soul and can’t imagine her life without him in it. On the other hand, there’s Shea Logan, aerospace engineer. He’s gorgeous, smart, funny and did I mention he’s single with a great head on his shoulders and ...